One of the things I've been noticing, as I've been working with young women trying to actually get into IT after high school (relatives and friends, all US citizens), is that all of the programs seem to only care about girls in middle school.

They seem to think that someone with a 2 year AA degree or 4 year Bachelors degree can't become an IT person, and doesn't want to.

This is false. I've known many younger - and even older - women who want to work in IT, in their mid-20s to mid-40s.

Something is fishy here.

Resistance is futile.

You seem not to understand that we don't live in a democracy (one person one vote). We live in a feudal oligarchy with landed serfs who think they live in a democracy.

Your "elected representatives" get most of their money from the oligarchies, not from the citizens.

They tend not to vote for "your" interests.

My point stands - this did not start in 2000 or 2001, this started a long time ago, and was in place by the time Reagan was in power. I can't speak to how long it precedes it, but I know your encryption protocols were backdoored a long time ago.

I can't really speak to the period before Reagan, I'm only aware of the stuff during Reagan myself.

My point, though, is that we've never actually abided by the US Constitution, but that we should.

And if that involves jail terms for those in charge, so be it.

We were doing this kind of thing back during Reagan.

The fact that it's coming out now doesn't change that basic fact.

We're serfs, not citizens.

and China and Taiwan and South Korea and places that like massive grants of private funds

It's like you don't get that research gets done no matter what you "say".

Seriously, you're wasting your time.

(not speaking for anyone, just telling you what happens IRL)

So my total cost is $0, unless you count all those "free" apps for mobile banking and cable service where they charge me fake "regulatory" fees for their own lobbying expenses.

I agree, tensile strength and lack of fiber cores is a serious drawback. We're working on tech to 3D print over stronger fiber cores and medical applications using wire mesh frameworks to try to deal with that. May even try bone structure concepts for some of the medical applications.

It really depends on what you 3D print with. If you use a modified spiderweb approach to lay down a support structure it really slows it down a lot right now, but it gives you much better results.

There are two barriers right now - cost of the printer and time to print.

For cost, you just need a Kinkos or OfficeMax or USPS or FedEx store model - where you have an account and have it printed there and you pick it up.

For time, the above model works fairly well.

We actually have quite a few 3D printers on campus and use them for a lot of things, so you can see it moving - you can even print stuff at the UW Bookstore (which also prints books in the public domain of rare editions).

People have been living there for thousands of years, with basically the same culture.

Grow a pair and stop whining.

Definitely.

But they have to launch from an American spaceship, not a Russian one.

Those Russian spacecraft are death traps.

Perhaps, but at the University of Washington, textbooks are sold by the Alumni Association, and have been since they founded the UW Bookstore back about 100 years ago.

Most of what students think of as "the University selling me books" is actually something a student association or other non-profit organization does, at most Universities.

Less efficient for theconsumer.

But more profitable for the Corporations that SCOTUS and Congress work for.